ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,702, issued on June 10, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Breaker device" was invented by Shun Ito (Hyogo, Japan), Shinya Kimoto (Osaka, Japan), Katsuya Uruma (Osaka, Japan) and Masato Nakamura (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This breaker device includes: a casing; an igniter disposed in the casing; a conductor including a separating portion disposed below the igniter; and a pusher located between the separating portion and the igniter and configured to move together with the separating portion from a first position to a second position located below the first position. ...